Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. Subscribe now. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

So I asked the team to share the playbook we’ve used to help prepare them to begin Definition. Read on for the Definition Playbook written by Rebecca Monfries and Nathan Bruce. What is Definition? Once you have completed enough discovery on your product or feature, the next stage is to prepare for the development process?—?to

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

Online marketing content has long been dominated by brands creating product descriptions, how-to guides, branded articles, and blog posts to promote their business. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites. Trustpilot, a consumer review site.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Say that you are working on a new brand-new product. But this would be wrong.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

We’d like to share some insights from what we’ve learned so far about software delivery and operations over the past few weeks of working from home during COVID-19 , and how we as an engineering team have adjusted to this unprecedented, unpredictable situation. . A time for the tried and tested. What do we need to change?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product? This sounds simple enough.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Welcome to “Why There’s No Single ‘Right’ Way to Do Product Discovery.” We’re both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Find it here.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In product, I see validation used all too often to describe what is actually research. This misuse misleads thinking about whether a product or feature is likely to succeed. I’m going to unpack the difference between product validation versus research and share what each is best for in this article.

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Melissa Perri

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. Even the most experienced Product Managers still don’t have them fully figured out. Three years ago I wrote a blog post about Rethinking the Product Roadmap , in which I advocated for a focus on solving customer problems instead of listing out features with deadlines.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. It can hold feedback from various sources such as customer support tickets, feature requests, surveys, reviews, and social media. What is the purpose of feedback repositories?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Problem Brief Over a span of 4 weeks, we tested Civians platform and created design solutions to improve the overall user experience of the dashboard. Our Process To make our interviews more fruitful, we established specific research objectives. During our tests, we identified some broader user behaviortrends: 1.

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Userpilot

JULY 2, 2024

But how do you choose the right data platform for product analytics ? Some benefits of using a self-serve data platform include empowered users, enhanced decision-making speed, reduced IT dependency, increased productivity, improved customer insights , provided agility, and saved costs. What should you look for?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2021

There is no single right way to do continuous discovery. Hope and I are 100% aligned on the underlying principles that continuous discovery relies upon. Continuous discovery is only sustainable when teams are intentional about finding the methods that will work best for them. I can’t emphasize this enough. Tweet This.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2024

A/B testing analytics is a powerful tool for optimizing the performance of your product or website. But approaching experiments in your company can be quite risky and thus hard to justify for your leadership team—especially if you’re new to product analytics. They include: Controlled A/B testing. Head-to-head A/B testing.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. Product teams have a variety of research activities they can draw upon when engaging with customers. If you work on a subscription product (e.g.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Product thinking is all about putting yourself in the other person’s (user) shoes. Only by adopting a product-thinking mindset and following it as a process can you get to know your users better. TL;DR Product thinking is the process of identifying problems and coming up with solutions by placing the user in the center.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Guest Post by: Tofi Buzali (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andy Wadhwa]. As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. I’d like to share with you some of the steps that have helped me define a product from scratch.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

Product engineers are experts at identifying, understanding and solving problems. Yes, the code that you write and the systems that you build are major contributing factors to the success and growth of a business. Here are the five areas that we encourage product engineers to contribute to as they seek to maximize their impact.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Product positioning is crucial in product management to attract prospects and stand out in your niche. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Design an effective product strategy.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. It’s the foundation of our product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, processes, tools, products, and services. Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever.

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Userpilot

MAY 13, 2024

Customer feedback surveys serve as invaluable tools for gathering actionable insights directly from your audience. However, it’s important to know when and how to trigger the forms to gather user feedback , for increased response rate and data credibility. Types of surveys include: Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT).

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

After working on a product for over two years without launching it, Rahul Vohra knew that he had to do something different. In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Rahul , CEO and Founder of Superhuman , shares with us a framework for determining product/market fit and optimizing until you achieve it. Measuring product/market fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 24, 2019

Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. Knowing already about the products they build can take you a long way. Questions about your background.

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Product Talk

JULY 19, 2023

If you’re a product person, you’ve developed a set of skills that help you in your job. You know (or you’re in the process of learning) how to identify opportunities , consider different solutions, and identify and test your assumptions. This was a question that recently came up in the Continuous Discovery Habits community.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product Bugs: A Comprehensive Guide?—?Part Part 2 This is Part 2 of a comprehensive guide to product bugs. Part 1 explored what product bugs are, why they occur, where they come from, and why they do and don’t matter. Part 2 focuses on how to manage product bugs. strategic consideration of product bugs.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? You will also learn about different types of market research and how to conduct it step by step. Conducting market research offers numerous benefits, including a better understanding of customer needs and market trends.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Guest Post by: Stef Orzech (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Alex Berman]. We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. I furrow my brow incredulously.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 2016, Glassdoor identified Product Management as the #8 best job to have in America, with a job score of 4.5 Unlike many of those jobs, product management is known for its nebulous career pathing and ambiguity. For new and aspiring product managers, that can be a challenge. Contributed by Cynthia Andre. Exude Confidence .

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 30, 2019

When we ship, we of course have done our diligence with research and design, but we’re also keenly aware that there’s so much we don’t know. Unlocking the power of feedback. Des: We’ve just launched a product recently in Product Tours. But humility too.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2023

Are you searching the market to find the best churn management software for your SaaS company? Churn management software is a tool or suite of tools that help you collect customer data, analyze customer attrition , and predict churn. Features to look for in customer retention software: Analytics and tracking. Customer reviews.

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